A new chapter and i still only own Trepp
Look at the end notes as i have a small question to ask but please enjoy the chapter.
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"Ahtal-ka? Sounds foreign," Mandalay said while thinking of the name.
"What I'm trying to figure out is how small it can be," Ragdoll thought out loud.
"We won't know till it's show but I have a feeling it'll cause Power Loader a headache to last a lifetime," Aizawa guessed while imagining said hero ripping out his hair.
"I'm so excited. I'll finally have someone that can be my assistant, but what will I name him or her? Will it be a robot as well?" Mei gushed as her mind and the questions were going a mile a minute.
"How about we wait and see what it'll be first and then you can think of a perfect name for it," Izuku suggested awkwardly while trying to keep his friend calm. A task that was easier said than done.
"You're right. If I know what it is then I can give it a perfectly fitting name. Then I can make something so it can help out when I invent something. Then we can try it together," Mei cheered quickly with her friends backing away from her slightly.
"If there's no other questions," Trepp said simply.
"Other than the troubles it'll cause, no," Aizawa mumbled discreetly, knowing this'll be a problem for him in the future.
"We'll start now," Trepp announced with no hesitation.
The screen was black before clearing up to show a red-bodied praying mantis with a black head and legs. "The mantids as fascinating as they are deadly. Over two thousand species making up some of nature's most finely honed killers. With a strike speed so quick, you can quite literally blink and miss it. The only insect able to turn its head, they punch well above their weight class, taking small birds and mammals as prey." Rage spoke in an ominous, echoing voice as several more of these insects were seen, several clips even showing these small, brilliantly colored creatures fighting each other.
"Damn, I didn't know that," Sero admitted and was amazed by the little tidbit.
"Don't discourage yourself. Not everyone knows that," Momo said, making the teen hero in training feel a bit better.
"It is very lucky, then, that they are so small in stature and non-threa..." Rage started to continue, before the scenes of the small red and black mantids dissolved away to some form of desert ruins, where a massive golden mantis with large, menacing, glowing pink eyes stood, its sickle-like claws outstretched and ready for combat, letting out a screech as its name was shown beside it in Kanji. "Threatening... Oh... OH!" He cried out, before breaking down into screams, apparently running away from his microphone, based on the sound of running footsteps, then finally the sound of a door shutting.
"He sounds disappointed?" Mina inquired as she tilted her head to the side.
"It does look unique," Ojiro said with a shrug.
"And cool, don't forget cool," Mina butted in as she liked the aesthetic of the mantis.
"I thought it would be bigger," Mineta shrugged as the monster looked like something out of an anime to him.
A test screen was then shown, before a hunter was shown charging towards the giant mantis. "Say hello, then, to Ahtal-Ka!" Rage properly introduced the beast as it was shown in its battle-ready stance again, letting out another shriek. "The Golden Mantis!" He declared as its music was then heard as the hunter charged in at her, readying to swing his greatsword, but another shriek from the beast stopped him, forcing him to cover his ears, before recovering and reengaging the beast, rolling forward and delivering a powerful horizontal slash.
"Gee I couldn't tell," Jiro mumbled as her class laughed.
"That's a big bug," Kota pointed out and pointed at it.
"And it'll be my best assistant," Mei proclaimed happily with a bunch of ideas going through her head.
"Still that's big. It looks to be about five times the height of an average man," Shinso theorized while squinting his eyes a bit.
"We… actually saw bigger monsters than that," Uraraka admitted which caused the brainwashing teen to wonder what the hell they saw.
"One of the most enigmatic, cunning and fearsome creatures to ever call this world of monsters its home. Not an Elder Dragon, despite its strength and rarity, but a Neopteron, sharing the same classification and Seltas Queen and Seltas Bitch. But oh, so much more..." Rage explained as a massive, bulky, four-legged scorpion-like beetle monster with shield-like mandibles was shown, then a much smaller beetle-like monster that could fly and also had sickle-like mandibles, but it had a sad face with teary eyes edited onto it.
"Elder dragon?" the newly arrived people asked at once.
"Short version, monsters that are literal forces of nature," Trepp answered as he didn't want to draw it out too much, "and before anyone asks, Neopteron are insect monsters that can range from small ones that are the size of a skateboard to ones the size of buildings."
Just after he said that, Koda shrieked and started to shake violently at the thought of large insect monsters. Luckily Jiro was there to calm him down a bit and reassure him that everything was fine.
"Ahtal-Ka, then, is sexually dimorphic, the females larger, but a dull brown. The males, while smaller, adorned in golden decorations, so that they're simply SHINY!" Rage explained, music playing as he said in a singing voice. "Please, giant mantis don't eat me!" He pleaded in song. "However, the Ahtal-Ka!" Rage started, before breaking down a bit in laughter, explaining why the name made him laugh and how it used to have a different name.
"It certainly had a shine to rival mine," Aoyoma respected as his own sparkle went off for some reason.
"So the one we're looking at is a male?" Mei asked since she wasn't familiar with the monster which wasn't saying much for everyone else.
"It does seem like it," Ragdoll replied with a smile on her face.
"You may think, then, that this one, being all glittery gold and gorgeous is a male, but in fact, it is a female. A queen in her own right and master of her domain. You see, Ahtal-Ka females are very much programmed to seek out and eat the males. Very similar to actual mantids, who as I'm sure a lot of you are aware, have a kind of, um... have a kind of arrangement whereby... whereby the males get eaten after mating. Granted, it only happens about 30% of the time, it's not as exaggerated as you might think, but it's still..." Rage explained, then started tripping over his words as he tried to put the next part into words as a group of three hunters fought the Ahtal-Ka. "In order to get some, you gotta be willing to lose your head, son! Is the mantis way!" Rage explained in rap as a clip showed panning up a mantid's body, only to reveal it didn't have a head, panning to the side where another mantis was licking up any scraps it had on itself from the meal.
"Guess I was wrong," Mei andRagdoll said at the same time with everyone chuckle at the two.
"Just like real pray mantis, that's gross," Toru said with her clothes severing a good bit.
"Oh just grow a pair and deal with it," Bakugo shouted, making the invisible girl sulk a bit.
"How about you be quiet for once and give us a bit of peace," Tsuyu suggested with a straight face which caused Bakugo to growl at her.
"Both of you stop," IIda ordered while trying to stop a fight from happening.
The scene then changed back to the hunters taking on the mantis. "But! With Ahtal Ka, the female gets a lot more than a meal from eating the males. She gains literal power and starts to take on the golden decorated hue. And the more males she eats, the more intense this effect. And as you can see from looking at her... yeah, she's plowed through quite the masculine buffet and as such had become obscenely powerful and an incredibly high-level threat to the guild." Rage explained as the Ahtal-Ka seemed to be stringing up some kind of strange web as she fought.
"So a power up? That pretty manly," Ejiro admitted, thinking of the positive effects.
"I hope we never learn how many it takes for a female to get like that," Shoji said as a few turned green at the thought.
"However! She is rare. This entire species is rare. To the point that hunters that die to them are, yes, mourned, but a lot of people feel genuine jealousy that they at least got to see the legendary walking treasure. Supposedly her beauty in person, is worth the grizzly death that it beckons." Rage explained as the three hunters facing the beast ran in and struck at it with their greatswords while she struck at them fiercely with her tail, claws and even shot out some strange globs of liquid to combat the hunters, quickly scurrying back to a safe distance after a moment of taking several strong hits.
"These hunters are crazy," Jiro groaned.
"Even if they're rare, it would be better to bring back proof. Get some credibility or fame for defeating one," Allmight sighed as he saw his fair share of crazy heroes who thought in a similar fashion.
"Some just seem to want to die in battle it seems," Pixie-bob sighed, wanting nothing more than to stay alive after a fight like any sane person.
"And let's just put her in perspective on the power scale here. Ahtal Ka has a little bit of a habit where by she likes to go out and collect stuff. She's a big fan of stuff, women right?" Rage said jokingly as the Ahtal Ka uses her webs to pull large pieces of metal objects towards herself, likely to be used as weapons.
"I kinda want to punch Rage right about now," Uraraka admitted with a dangerous glint in her eyes and a dark aura surrounding her.
"That's how I'm feeling as well," Mandalay said with the same look and aura.
"Funny, I'm feeling that too," Ragdoll said with a hollow smile gracing her face.
One by one, all of the women minus Mei felt like paying Rage a visit to give him what they would call constructive criticism. The others of the opposite gender wisely kept their mouths shut, even Bakugo, so as to not direct their fury onto them.
"And she- well, indulges in that habit by going to a human fortifications and she's like 'I don't know what to get', so she buys everything. And by buy everything, I me, decimates the entire army stationed there in minutes by herself, ransacks the entire fortress, killing every little thing and dragging everything valuable, or what she perceives to be, back to her secluded, secret empire where she hordes it and twists and turns it into... well, we'll get to that in just a moment." Rage explained as the Ahtal-Ka picked up a massive, barbed spear-like weapon and strapped it to her back with threads, using more threads to pick up and throw another one of these spears, only much older and rustier.
"I'm not buying it," Sato said, "it can be tricky but I'm doubting the hunters can have much trouble with it."
"Knowing what's gonna come up, Ahtal-ka will most likely gave an element it can use," Izuku guessed
"Show us something good," Mei begged while her eyes were focused on the screen.
"But first, let's talk weaponry, then. Because, admittedly, despite how pretty this monster is, you'd be forgiven for thinking 'It doesn't look like- army decimating?' And, look, let me tell you why you don't want to stumble across her jeweled desert kingdom. She is quick. Very quick. And her claws are sharp. Very sharp. If you find yourself face-to-face, you'll quickly find yourself thinking 'Wait, why can I see myself? Oh, I've been decapitated'. And then, on top of that, she is able to lift, very much ant-like, many times her own body weight. She does this with her abdomen, which can contract and shrink in order to grip, with the little points, a... for example: giant-ass girder, which she then secures to her back with her signature, most potent and dazzling biological weaponry. Much like a spider spinning web, she can secrete and freely manipulate with a skill and mastery that would make Athena blush, a beautiful golden thread, shimmering in the setting sun." Rage explained as there were numerous examples of Ahtal Ka utilizing a beautiful golden thread as she fought.
"It would be weird if it's claws weren't sharp," Tiger pointed out, feeling those claws could cleave anything easily.
"So it's a spider and praying mantis fused?" Denki asked while looking confused. Anyone could tell a few lightning bolts were shorting out to signify the point.
"It's best if we don't get the answer and agree that these monsters are abnormal. It'll save us a few headaches," Momo suggested with everyone agreeing.
"Still sharp claws are kinda expected," Shoto added simply.
"Like a practiced dance, using her claws, which are capable of the most fine, dexterous movements out of literally any monster, she is able to quite literally weave through the battlefield, spinning the air into a golden tapestry of death. And she is not afraid to get brutal with this. For that girder she has picked up, webbed to her back, secure will unhinge and she will swing it around, using the silk as a giant battering ram that will sweep through the battlefield, crushing rock and bone alike. And that's just the start, because I have danced around it for long enough! Let's talk Ahtal-Ka's signature, army destroying ability..." Rage said ominously as an image of Ahtal-Ka with a girder on her back was shown.
"Let's see if this bug will live up to the hype," Bakugo yawned with the others wondering what it could do. Sadly they were so focused on the screen that they missed Trepp sporting an amused grin on his face.
"You see, she's very clever. She has a lot going on in the noggin. She is capable of mechanical constructions. COMPLEX mechanical constructions. Meet the Ahtal-Nesto!" Rage declared with an echo, accompanied by an epic chorus as Ahtal Ka shot out several lines of silk and began pulling up what looked to be random, albeit very large, pieces of scrap, until she pulled up enough to reveal a clearly monster-like mechanical form, quickly swinging towards it and into its chest area, pulling on the threads even more until she was encased in a cocoon of gold and she had pulled up a massive form of metal scraps, looking similar to a brontosaurus, or other long-necked quadrupedal dinosaur. "She constructs herself, from the stolen shit, a working, pilotable mech in her own image, wrought in steel that she decimates all before her with! Using it as secure transport from location to location, it is the most effective defensive strategy, in the history of monster combat!" Rage explained as the mech began to move and attack the hunters.
"So goddamn cool!" Vegeta cried from off-screen.
At the sight of a literal mecha that was made by an insect, well let's say many were afraid at the integrity of this monster. While most of the group had their jaws wide open, Koda was shaking and crying as he imagined the bug squishing him in some weird ironic way.
"Woah," Kota muttered
"The fuck!?" Bakugo yelled as he couldn't believe this shit.
"I'm too sober for this," the teachers and pro heroes muttered.
"YYYYEEEEEESSSSSS!" Mei cheered excitedly as many ideas started to form in her head.
"So, yeah. Pretty cool, right? That's pretty neat. It's just the best thing. And it kind of almost works. Her thread is strong. Imagine if you tie some string to a door, pull on it and then the door closes. Well, imagine from her pilot's cocoon, she has a series of threads she can pull on which, through a complex web, emanating out through this mechanical monster, like a golden nervous system will make it dance to her tune and her music is a masterpiece." Rage added as the hunter climbed on the mech and began attacking several large golden flower buds with webs at the bottom, bringing it down and allowing the hunter to attack more vulnerable bits.
"It's just like me," Mei cheered as she shook with barely contained excitement, "I'm gonna make so many babies with my new friend."
Those words echoed inside the minds of Izuku, Iida, and Uraraka causing them to feel a sense of dread. There was no doubt in their minds that the universe just physically multiplied the inventor and that scared them.
"And you're giving the students this?" Pixie-bob yelled with distress clearly written over her face. In her mind if this thing was running around then it could literally topple society faster than these villain attacks.
"Only one student gets this particular monster. Please get it right," Trepp dismissed as if there was nothing wrong.
"That's still one too many," Aizawa rationalized as he knew this would be a nightmare.
"Relax and trust me. I have everything under control, but the silver lining is that it could help you repair some damages or even get the principal to make more traps I guess," Trepp replied, causing a wave a fear through the teachers of UA.
"While fighting this, then... well, you better hope for the best. It is nigh impenetrable to traditional attacks. Only large scale explosions ever causing it significant damage. It is disabled by climbing it physically and severing the thread connections which is used to control it. Eventually, with the right strike in just the right place, it will be brought to ground, where you can enter it at the pilot level and start battering through the cocoon in which she hides, slowly but surely damaging it to the point she loses control, it falls apart and she is forced to fight you once more. The quote-unquote 'phases' of this fight, the different strategies she goes for while trying to dispose of hunters in are just incredible." Rage explained as the hunter continued to climb on the mech and damage the cocoons on it, or even dodging massive stomps that also shot up giant spikes of Earth while on the ground trying to find a way up the mech.
Several more images of Ahtal-Nesto were shown. "But it gets even better! It really does. This is just the showy part, it's not actually that effective at killing an individual target. Too large scale, but you know what is REALLY good at killing an individual target? A big spear-like creation, pointed specifically at the thing that you want to be deadified. How would you feel if I told you she can wield a Dragonator?" Rage asked, before the clip of a somewhat seasoned man was shown as he turned around, panting heavily as more terrifying orchestral music was heard.
"Ok, that does it. That thing is too smart," Sero yelled since he was freaked out by it.
"Using their own weapon against them, just how does it know," Aoyoma wondered.
"A gaint bug that can kill us," Shinso muttered as he wondered what made this monstrosity.
"Yep! 'Phase 3' is when she starts picking up Dragonators! You know those fortresses she's been raiding? Yep, she's got quite the supply of Dragonators. This is where the fight really begins." Rage declared as the Ahtal-Ka swung the massive spear at the hunters before her, accompanied by awesome music which was likely her theme. "Through blood, sweat and tears will see you into 'Phase 4' and this is phase that is by far the hardest and this is the phase where she is desperate. Forced to the brink, she lets her silk fly. You can see it in the air, dancing its dance, playing along with her expert tune as she picks up a giant water wheel to send swinging 'round the arena, the roof now a layer of silk and thread, dancing to her elegant tune." Rage explained as the Ahtal-Ka indeed set up almost a spider-web of golden threads, keeping the aforementioned wheel on its back, swinging it around and even throwing it, letting it roll around while she hung on with thread as it nearly rolled over hunters and she even spun three more Dragonators in a circle around her from above.
"When our students get their monsters, we must keep an eye on them. No questions asked and we make sure to stop any kind of trouble they'll cause," Allmight suggested, a smile missing from his face and his eyes wide in disbelief.
"Agreed," Aizawa and the pussycats said at the same time. There was no way they're dealing with any shenanigans from the monsters if they could help it.
"Dazzling in the final eclectic moments of this battle for the ages. She, using the fine control she displayed for the Ahtal-Nesto, will pick up, seemingly floating in the air, triple Dragonators, spinning them around and targeting the would-be adversaries. Now, you can flash her out of it, but that's boring. She will launch them at you, like... well, come on! She's firing a Dragonator at you! That's a way to ruin your day! That's not good! that's not what you really want! And this is where everything comes to bear. You have to dodge, weave and chip away until she slowly gives up on her cling to her treasures and her life and you can pick up some really good armor from it. I like the Ahtal-Ka armor. And her greatsword? It's not bad, I'm a fan." Rage explained as the Ahtal-Nesto was shown breaking apart, revealing Ahtal-Ka with her eyes glowing, indicating she was furious.
"Her greatsword huh?" Mei mumbled as she took Izuku's notebook and scribbled something down.
"I can't deal with this," Mineta screamed in horror.
"It's a sniper," Uraraka shivered at the thought.
"It can pierce my quirk with no problem," Ejiro mumbled.
Looking around at each person, Trepp knew something was up and asked, "Scared you all?" All he got was a few nods at how terrifying the monster was.
"It's perfect for me," Mei proclaimed as if she won the lottery.
"At least you liked it," Trepp thanked, "With that said, we'll start the next one."
"Another crazy monster?" Mina and Jiro asked.
"Surprisingly the next one isn't a monster but it's a tiny helper that's soft, cuddly and strong," Trepp admitted simply.
"Huh? Not a monster?" Uraraka asked.
"Correct, what you'll be seeing is something for Aizawa and the Pussycats," Trepp said, gaining the attention of the five, "Now this one will be different as you will see something that assists the hunters, the Palico."
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So this is the end of the chapter. Came out faster than i thought it would and still am happy with it since it scared almost everyone. Hopefully you all like it and i portrayed the new group good even if they didn't get many lines, figured they're awed by it a good bit.
Quick question, Should i use the hero names of the Pussycats and any other possible others that might be used or use their Civilian names?